Bio

Donal Fitzgibbon is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement in London. He brings more than twenty years of experience integrating sustainability/ESG in various project, functional and organizational leadership roles across a range of sectors, including consumer goods, oil and gas, real estate, transportation and pharmaceuticals. Mr. Fitzgibbon delivers complex risk management engagements (including due diligence), transformational change, and continuous improvement programmes. He has experience working with colleagues, clients, and stakeholder/community groups in developed, emerging and frontier markets. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Fitzgibbon served as Group of Head of Sustainability for Tullow Oil, an Africa-focused oil and gas exploration and production company. He defined their sustainability strategy, leading a comprehensive double materiality assessment and refining their 2030 net zero roadmap through asset decarbonisation initiatives and the use of nature-based carbon off-sets. Mr. Fitzgibbon also supported their human rights saliency assessment process and helped develop an enhanced social investment framework. Previously, Mr. Fitzgibbon held leadership roles in corporate, functional, operations and R&D with British American Tobacco, where he worked across the entire value chain, building critical organizational capabilities to manage ESG risk. He set corporate environmental targets and functional roadmap(s); developed product life assessment protocols and led the design, configuration and roll-out of a ‘best-in-class’ environmental reporting and performance management system (SaaS) across 130+ markets. As Global Head of R&D Manufacturing, Mr. Fitzgibbon led the transformation of new category product development capabilities. Mr. Fitzgibbon earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from the University of Limerick, a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Queens University Belfast, a master’s degree in international security and global governance (focus on environmental induced conflict and multilateral environmental agreements) from Birkbeck College, University of London and an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management